BRUSSELS/LONDON (Reuters) - European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen held a call with metals industry representatives on Monday and was speaking to the automobile sector later to discuss how to respond to U.S. tariffs, sources and a letter showed. The calls aimed to collect more data to strategise further trade counter-measures beyond Brussels' upcoming response to Washington's previously announced...

06:30 AM EDT, 04/07/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Meta Platforms ( META ) said Saturday it has released the first models from its latest open-source artificial intelligence software Llama 4. The social media giant said that Llama 4 Scout delivers better results than Gemma 3, Gemini 2.0 Flash-Lite, and Mistral 3.1 across various widely reported benchmarks, while the Llama 4 Maverick...

SYDNEY, Aug 18 (Reuters) - Google agreed on Monday to pay a A$55 million ($35.8 million) fine in Australia after the consumer watchdog found it had hurt competition by paying the country's two largest telcos to pre-install its search application on Android phones, excluding rival search engines. The fine extends a bumpy period for the Alphabet-owned internet giant in Australia,...

06:31 AM EDT, 04/07/2025 (MT Newswires) -- Meta Platforms ( META ) is planning a nearly $1 billion data center project in Wisconsin as part of its efforts to increase investments in artificial intelligence and cloud infrastructure, Bloomberg reported Saturday. Bloomberg said a document showed that the state of Wisconsin signed an incentive deal with an unnamed company for the...